ScionTechStart free audit
Free · Read-only · No agent

Find out what’s exposed in your AWS account.

A read-only audit across 2,300+ checks in every active region. You get a security risk score, a severity breakdown, and the three fixes that matter most — in under ten minutes.

  • No credentials shared
  • Nothing in your account is modified
  • Revoke in one click
What you get

The free report is genuinely useful on its own.

Most “free audits” are a lead form with a number attached. This one hands you three fixes you can action today, whether or not you ever speak to us. That is deliberate — it is how you find out whether we know what we are doing.

A risk score you can interrogate
One number, 0–100, lower is better. Every point is traceable to a specific finding or missing control — and we publish the full rubric. No black box.
Severity breakdown by region
Critical, high and medium findings across every active region, each tied to the exact resource identifier so your team can go straight to it.
Three fixes, fully worked
Not "enable logging" — the literal console click-path, the CLI command, the time it takes, and confirmation that it will not disrupt anything.
Compliance mapping
Every finding mapped to the SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and CIS controls it breaches. Useful the next time a customer sends you a security questionnaire.
Security risk score
76
/100
HIGH RISK

Lower is better. Methodology published.

Critical34
High153
Medium226
Top quick win · 2 min
Security group exposes all 65,535 ports to the internet
Delete the inbound rule 0–65535 from 0.0.0.0/0, then move the instance to a private subnet.
View the complete sample report
How it works

Three steps. Nothing installed, nothing changed.

01~60 seconds

Connect in one click

You deploy a CloudFormation stack in your own account. It creates a read-only IAM role scoped by an external ID unique to you. You never send us a credential, because there is no credential to send.

023–15 minutes

We scan, read-only

2,300+ checks across every region with active resources, covering IAM, network exposure, encryption, logging, threat detection and workload configuration.

03Immediate

You get your score

Risk score, severity breakdown and three fully worked quick wins. The complete findings register and 90-day roadmap come in a walkthrough with the engineer who ran the scan.

Security of the audit itself

We ask for the least access that does the job.

Granting a third party access to your AWS account is a serious decision and you should treat it as one. Here is exactly what the role can do, and how to take it away.

Two AWS-managed policies. Nothing bespoke.

SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess, both published and maintained by AWS. You can read what they grant in AWS documentation rather than trusting our JSON.

Zero write permissions

The role cannot create, modify or delete any resource. Even a total compromise of our infrastructure could not change anything in your account. AWS enforces this, not us.

External ID on the trust policy

Prevents the confused-deputy attack: without it, anyone learning our role ARN could induce us to assume a role in an account they do not own.

Revocation takes one click

Delete the CloudFormation stack and our access ends immediately. You do not need to contact us, and we cannot prevent it.

sciontech-audit-role.yamlRead-only
AuditRole:
  Type: AWS::IAM::Role
  Properties:
    RoleName: ScionTechAuditRole
    ManagedPolicyArns:
      - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/SecurityAudit
      - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/ViewOnlyAccess
    AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
      Statement:
        - Effect: Allow
          Principal:
            AWS: !Sub 'arn:aws:iam::${TrustedAccount}:root'
          Action: sts:AssumeRole
          Condition:
            StringEquals:
              sts:ExternalId: !Ref ExternalId
This is the entire template. No inline policies, no wildcards, no write actions.
Would rather not grant access at all?

Run the open-source scanner yourself and upload the JSON output. You get the same report and we never touch your account. Ask for the self-scan instructions when you book.

Track record

The people reading your report have fixed this before.

Eazybot
Crypto trading platform
70%+ attack traffic eliminated

DDoS mitigation via CDN and WAF, infrastructure moved into private subnets, geo-replicated database for availability.

Bonnier Media
Digital publishing — Saveur, PopSci
~40% latency reduction, 20%+ availability gain

Frontend Varnish caching, plus a centralised Infrastructure-as-Code repository to track security group changes after an autoscaling incident.

SimplerMedia Group
Digital media — CMSWire, Reworked
20% operational cost reduction

Legacy EC2 re-engineered onto ECS Fargate, with budget alerts that caught a 30% NAT Gateway cost surge from a failing task.

HK
Hardik Kamdar — AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional

Ten-plus years running AWS infrastructure for media, fintech and SaaS clients. The engineer who reviews your findings is the one who wrote the checks — not a salesperson working from a script.

LinkedIn →
Questions

The things people actually ask.

What access do you need?

A read-only IAM role in your account, created by a CloudFormation stack you deploy yourself. It attaches two AWS-managed policies — SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess — so you can verify exactly what it grants without reading our JSON.

Can you change anything in my account?

No. The role carries no write permissions of any kind. Even if our scanner were compromised, it could not modify, delete or create a single resource. This is enforced by AWS, not by our promise.

How do I revoke access?

Delete the CloudFormation stack. Access ends immediately. No email, no support ticket, no waiting on us.

What is the external ID for?

It prevents a confused-deputy attack. Without it, anyone who learned our role ARN could induce us to assume a role in an account they do not own. Yours is generated server-side and is unique to you.

What do you store, and for how long?

Scan findings and the generated report, encrypted at rest. We do not store credentials — there are none to store. Findings are deleted on request at any time, and we keep retention short by default.

Is it really free? What is the catch?

The audit is free and the three quick wins are yours to action whether or not you ever speak to us. We do it because a meaningful share of people who see their score want help fixing it, and that is the business. No card, no trial, no auto-renewal.

What happens after the scan?

You get your score, severity breakdown and three highest-impact fixes immediately. The full findings register, compliance mapping and 90-day remediation roadmap come in a 30-minute walkthrough with the engineer who ran the scan.

Which regions do you scan?

All regions with active resources, detected automatically. Findings in unused regions matter — an exposed security group in a region nobody watches is worse than one in production, not better.

Ten minutes to find out where you stand.

No card, no trial, no auto-renewal. Three fixes you can action today, and an honest conversation about the rest.